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The Russellville Democrat., 1887-06-15
sHERlFFs PROCLAMATION.

Notice Is hereby given that by virtue os Il proclamation issned and to me di- recfed by the Governor of the State of Ark, there will be q special election held June 25,lsS7, in Moreland tp Pope county, said State, for the purpose of elccting two Justices of the Peace to serve out the unexpired terms of the regular Justices of the Pence for said township made vacant ny death and re- m0yal,
 Given under my hand on thls 18th day of June, 1887.
 ]. R YOUNG, June 22' sheriff Pope Co., Ark.
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AGUE BUSTERS, q: gs:.s: s:';' e.'i S,., Gun: :.a
From Hon. D. P. Marr, Judge of tn 2efh Diufriet.

From Hon. D. P. Marr, Judge of the 36th District:
 PEARsALL. TEXAS, Mar. 1 'sl. Messrs. J. J & W. H. Iobin,
 GENTLEMEN :-I take pleasure in ad- ding my testimony to the happy effects of Hepatizone as Liver Regulator. | believe it to be the best known remedy for disordered or deranged liver, and know It will prove beneficial In Dys- pepsia, Constipation, Nausea, Dizzi- ness, and particularly Diarrhma. To those of sedentary habits, l am con- vinced short trial will prove 1t to be Indispensable. No professional man should be without it. It excels in the mildDess yet thoroughness Of it's action upon the system, giving immediate re- lief. and it's action is not attended with gripping pains of disturbance of rest.
 Respectfully,
 D. r. MARR. For sale by J. Nj. Harkey & Bro. and by W. $. Hinton, Atkins.
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STATE TREASURY DEPARTMENT
 AUSTIN, TEXAS, Nov. 1G, 'S5.} Dr. J. J. Tobin:
 l take pleasure in adding my testi. mony to the balance you already have of your most valuable medicine, aHe- patizone." 1t is the most efiicacious and agreeable I have ever used.
 Yours truly,
 F. R. LUBBOCK,
 State Treasurer. For sale by J. NJ. Harkey & Bro, and by ". 5. Hinton, Atkins.
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CITY RESTAURANT.

H. G. WELLS, PROPRIETOR, In the Pruitt building, on Jefferson street, Russellyille, Arkansas. Meals 20 cents, and at all hours, from a. m. to D. m. Boarders taken by the day or week. Rates reasonable. Call and cpp mo
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NOTICE.

positively forbid black berry pick CTS coming inside my enclosures to pick berries. Will prosecute as tres- passers ali who Ignore this warning.
 J. M. HARKEY.
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The Iron Mountain fast trains makes up five hours on stops be tween Little Rock and St. Louis.
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DOVER, June 11.-Prof. W. A. Baird, County Examiner, has kindly furnish ed me with the list of the teachers, reg istered and passing examination to teach in the common schools in Pope county for the ensuing yeap.
 FIRST GRADE W. N. Oates, J. T.. Puckett, W. s. Newton, NJ. II. Baird, w. A. Moffit, J. T. Burris, W. G. Bull lock.
 SECOND GRADE: U. G. Vim, R. W. Suider, G. NJ. Snider, c. c. Bell, w. l.. Grow, G. W. Baird, J. A. swann, D. B. Walters, J. NJ. Campbell, A. J. Pol lard, W. R. Mckinney, ". F. Turner, w. L. Casey, W. l.. Davis, E. Truett B NJ. Ross, Sam Davis, J. Nj. Batten- field, Miss Sue Matthews, Miss Mollie Martin.
 THIRp GRApn. Miss Savannah Mont gomery, s. T. Malone, J. k. Nell, J. B. Cooper, W. r. Daley, y. D. Bull lock, Joe Brown. W. D. Sims.
 It will be observed that several have secured certificates of the first grade who have heretofore held only the sec ond grade, and these gentlemen deserve the applause of all who feel an interest in eleyating this important profession 10 3 high degree of proficiency. While l observed that some who have never tried to secure higher than q second grade certificate, still hold their own without any visible change except for the worse, take occasion to repeat now what said upon this same subject year ago, viz: "An individual who has no higher ambition than to plod along year after year making no effort to pass the starting point should be al- lowed no place in the profession at all and refused any sort of certificate. Any man or woman who can obtain d cer- tflcate of the second grade now, can by the proper application qualify for first grade in one or two years" I am not teaching, nor do eyer expect to teach agaln5 but as citiren, and one who feels deep interest in the educational interests of the county and state, l say that inasmneh as ;he training and edu- cation of our youth are in the keeping of the teachers in our common schools. those who have by energy and perse verance attained high degree of pro- ficiency as such, should be protected against so-called teachers who have no further ambition to gratify in pursuing tbis calling than to gain what little money there is in teapbing. Of course there are deserving young men and young women who should be given an opportunity to improve, who if they fail to come up to that standard of pro- ficiency required by those who hold
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NOT TOO LATE.

Beds are full of fine strong plants. Will sell as long as they last at 1.50 per 1000. cash E. F. BABCoCK.
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R. H. Chaney, of Arkansas county, has been appointed to reorganize the Grange in the State.
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HIN TON HOUSE
MRs. W. S. HINTON, PRor's,

ATKINS, ARK. Good accommodations for Conner cial Gentlemen, Day, Week or Month"; ly Boarders.
 sB- NICE ROOMS. .Gs Everything first-class. Reasonable charges.
 Near depot and postofiice. A reliable porter visits trains. MRS. W. S. HINTON, Proprietress.
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AGUt bUSlEhS Malaria Troubles. 50 cts.
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kEIIF RIISTEpc Cure your chiils, snd pre- hoVL uUolLn0 vent their return. Price 5Oc
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Shaving, Hair Cutting and Shampooing done promptly ant in the latest and most approved styles. Shop on Jefferson street.
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lflIE DIICTcDC Cure your Chis and Tone
CORRESPONDENCE.
oolresponaence of the Democrat.

Colresponuence of the Democrat.
 PoTTs STATION, June, I0.-Hello Here l am again knocking at the door Of your news columns. 1 sup. pose the editor and "dear people" thought l was dead by my continu. ed absence. l was only hoeing in my-cottoD -grass-patch or some thing maybe It was grassy cotton patch.
 Health is good generally, though some of the kids take 'sshake" oc- casionally. I wonder if "Bunks" teeth has quit rattling yet.
 Crops are looking fine, though the rains have gwen the grass such a start of the farmers that it will take some time to clear the crops of it. Wheat is harvested, and is found to be better than expected. Soon we will hear the busy hum of the thresh- CT, and we hope to see Labe eating ''gizzards" by tue dozen. Double toll will be taken where no chicken is furnished.
 The past Sunday being the day for the cyclone, q young gent Of this vicinity went to Atkins early Sun. day morning to take refuge in q storm pit and as the storm failed to come he will retreat to the city every Sunday till it does come, so great is his fear of cyclones.
 Among other things, we note that Master J. +. Darr, the efficient sales man and book keeper of the dry goods house of J. F. Darr, has given up hls position as salesman and flung aside the mighty pen, and has even forsook the shelter of the parental roof for the honorable posi- tion of porter at first class hotel in the town of Atkins. The many friends of Eddie who once saw him stepping proudly behind the coun- ters or sitting upon the office stool with "A. W. Faber No. ?" lead pencil behind his ear, will now, when visiting Atkins, see him stalking meditatively about the railroad de pot with piece of cardboard pinned to the front of his ''top piece" with the word printed thereon--PoRTER, awaiting the arrival of drummers and the travelling people in general. And as he wheels the "grips" of two or three drummers over to "the House" we hear him faintly hum the words, Where, o, where has Buffalo gone"
 What has become of Bunk, we rarely see anything from him in the columns2
 With best wishes for DEMOCRAT and hotel porters, l am stlll
 CHEESE.
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daisyin
 Twenty bushels of cotton seed will De taken on sbscription. Apply at this
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-16
TWO CLASSES OF FARMERS.

We hear much about farming as a
business, one class urging most en-
phatically that it does pay, while an
other class say it does not. Which is
right? Wherein lies this difference
of opinion? It must certainly be in
their method of doing business. [
recently attended the Otsego County
Dairymens' Association. It was made
up of the best class of farmers in the
county, men who lubricate their
muscles with brains and spread them
on freely. They came there and read
essays that would do credit to men of
college education. Yet they were a
discontinued lot of farmers. It is the
discontinued people of the world who
make things move. A man that is
perfectly contented with his lot never
amounts to much he is like the re-
tired merchandise capital is locked
up in self-support, and he adds nothing
to the world. These farmers told of
successes achieved in the past year
and their brains were active for the
future, and next winter, when they
meet again, we shall hear of good re-
suits from. them. The lawyer and
doctor would drop in and take part
occasionally, but when it came to argu-
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ments, they usually got the worst O.
it. These farmers did not complain
of hard times, OF say farming was a
failure. They were looking ahead
and planning, hopefully, for next
season, and they declared that well
directed labor on the farm did pay,
and it does. There were no moon
men there, and men who put OF TILL
tomorrow what should be done now.
Let us look at the other side OF the
question. There are many farmers
homes throughout the country where
you may find an almanac and a fashion
book or two on the table, but the ag-
ricultural journal, the guiding-star in
their business, is entirely wanting :;
"father and grandfather never took
such papers, and we don't need any,
This following in "grandfather's"
footsteps is the reason farming don't
pay. A new era has dawned in the
agricultural world new methods and
more intelligent men are needed. You
ask this man how his crops were last
year, and he will tell you that he was
away, and the boys planted the
"taters" when the moon was wrong,
and they failed. When you question
him about his methods Of fertilizing
and tilling, you soon find out where
the trouble was. He will tell you that
he was converted when the moon was
wrong and he backslid that he re-
formed again when the moon was
right, and he has stuck fast ever
since. The last statement is just as
reasonable as the first. This man is
contented with his lot, and he never
will be any different. He does not
try to advance f.; clinging to old notions
and whims that have been handed
down to him for a generation 'farm-
ing don't pay" with him, but he
doesn't care-he gets a living, simply
exists, and is satisfied.
Brother farmers, you a so unite
your brain and muscle as to win the
respect of your friends and neighbors;
they will look to you as a model in
their business !; you will be doing much
good by your methods-unawares. Or
O can take the other course and be-
come the laughing stock of the COM
munity. Discomfort, united with
brains and work, will push you to the
top an empty head, combined with
old whims and shiftlessness, will al
ways keep you at the foot of the
ladder. Choose -. A. jerks, an the
Country Gentleman.
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With all the talk about the indie
pendence of the farmer, the truth is
that the farming classes are becoming
less self-reliant every year. They are
obliged to buy much that under the
old methods was produced on the
farm. Cotton goods have superseded
linen and woollen. Even in maintain
ing fertility, the produce of the farm
does not directly contribute to the ex-
tent it formerly did. Instead of feed
ing hay and grain, these products are
sold, and artificial fertilizers purchased
in their stead. These changes in prac-
tice are very possibly the causes Of
much modern Ill success in farming.
While some cannot be reversed, others
may be and especially should this be
true of manures. If land cannot be
made to permanently support its own
fertility it is a sign either of a very
great mismanagement, or that the soil
is too poor for profitable farming
american Culavator.
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CAMPBELL.

J.. H. BinghamMaster of the Ohio
State Grange, closed an address to the
Patrons of that State in these words
Let our watchword be "Put none
but honest, capable, sober, economical
men in official positions. Let us de-
mand a fair share Of representation in
the Legislature and Congress for the
men who are directly interested in the
nations greatest industry. In a rep
resentative government, the interests
not directly represented, always have
and always will suffer. No one but a
fool Or knave will deny this. Shall
past follies be repeated and continued
Shall we not act upon the theory that
the "Lord helps those who help them
selves 2" There is no shadow of ex-
cuse for us. We can protect our
every interest, andif we are not manly
enough to do it, then we deserve to
suffer. If we are determined to give
more attention to our own interests in
the future, the first step must be to
organize our forces. It is not probable
that a political or party organization
of farmers is desirable, but an organ-
ization which is not afraid of politics
we must have. The Grange has its
social, educational and moral features,
but that is not all. We propose to
boldly advocate political reforms, and
cooperate for the overthrow of the
"pirates" who infest and sometimes
control political parties. Farmers,
join us In this work, and we will do
you good, and hurt no man who is do
ing an honest, Legitimate business.
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WHAT AN OLD FARMER SAYS.

This is the advice of an old man
who titled the soil for forty years. I
am an old man old man, upwards of
three score years, during two score of
which I have been a tiller of the soil.
1 cannot say that I am now, but I
have been rich, and have all that I
need, do not owe a dollar, have given
my children a good education, and
when I am. called away will leave
enough to keep the wolf from the
door. My experience taught me
that
One c r of land we'll prepared and
well cultivated produces more than
two which receives only the same
amount of labor used on one.
One COW, horse, mule, sheep, or hog,
well fed is more profitable than two
kept on the same amount necessary to
keep one we'll. =
One acr of clover or grass is worth
two of cotton where no clover or
grass is raised.
No farmer who buys oats, corn, or
wheat, fodder and hay, as a rule, for
ten years, can keep the sheriff away
from his door in the end.
The farmer who never reads the
papers, at book farming and
improvements, always has a leaky
roof, poor stock, broken down fences,
and complains of bad seasons.
The farmer who is above his bust.
ness and entrusts it to another to
manage, 500 has no business to at.
tend tO.-Er.
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CROP ROTATION.

Editor Southern Planter AS many
farmers give their views from time to
time through your valuable paper,
perhaps some words from me may not
be amiss. After many years of expe-
rience in practical farming, I have
adopted the system herein set forth as
O nearly covering my views than
any other plan [ ever tried or seen
tried. Ny land is divided into ten
fields and four tobacco lots-not in
Guiding yard, garden, orchard, truck
patches, wood land, &c. Fields Nos.
| and 2 are low ground, moist land.
No. l in corn this year, No. 2 in green
crops, to be turned under for corn
next year. Fields Nos. l and 2 stead
1iy IN corn, one every year, nothing
oelng grown in either except corn or
some green crop, to be turned under
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STOCK RAISING AND Epr,,.
GROWING BETTER THAN
ALL COTTON.

The press has long advocated a die
continuance of the all cotton svstom
The farmers themselves admit tbat =.
is ruinous and to some extent ono
changing their plans, but,the chanao
is going on SO slowly as to be aImGSt
imperceptible. Of the l2O, 600 acroS
of land in this, Pickens, county, 50 nm
are in cotton, $4,000 in corn. 10 OOO
in oates, 1000 in gardens, truck batch,
es, etc., and balance in sorghum. suosr
cane, rice and tobacco. We prod1co
10000 bales of cotton, which conlJ
easily be grown on half the land de-.
voted to that crop, and the same NAV
be said of the other crops; that is, we
cultivate 100, 900 acres of land for
what could be raised on 60, 900 acres
But to do this we must make the land
richer, not by buying fertilizers, but
by making them, and to do this we
must raise more stock. We have in
this county Is, 900 head Of cattle, 5000
horses and mules, 5000 hogs, 1000
sheep and 5000 goats, worth in the 40.
gregate ST., 1000, 900. We have pasture
land more than sufficient for ten times
the stock we are now keeping, and BY
the little trouble and expense necessary
to put up hay for the few weeks that
stock have to be fed, we could increase
our wealth by nine millions dollars, and
at the same time make our land the
most fertile in the world.
AS to a market we will have one at
home for all the horses and mules that
we can raise for years to come, and
the rapidity with which the manufac,
turing cities are springing up through
out our State insures a good market
for any other stock that we may raise.
Stock raising is certainly a pleasant
and healthy occupation, and we think
the day is not far distant when more
of our people will engage in it.
Fruit growing is even more profitable
than stock raising, and as the demand
for fruits is increasing far more rapidly
than the supply, this is destined to be
one of the best paying enterprises that
any one can embark in. All fruits, ex-
cept the tropical, do we'll in Alabama,
and the day is not distant when a pear
orchard will be considered quite as de-
sirable a. an orange grove, and the
pear comes in bearing so much sooner
than the orange. Le'Conte pears will
bear in three years after setting out,
and other varieties in from five to
seven. While we are waiting for our
trees to grow, small fruits and vegeta-
bles will give us profitable employment.
Sooner or later we must change our
plans, and the sooner we do this the
better. Many of our old farmers say
that they cannot embark in new enter
prises with any hope of success, that
their sands r too nearly run, and
that the planting of orchards and vine
yards must be done by our young
farmers. We hope our young men
will take hold of this matter and make
a success of it. Golden opportunities
are awaiting young men who have the
energy and ability, and are not afraid
of work. Lands will never again be
as cheap as now, or farms bought on
as easy terms.-C. G. L.. Dill in the
Nev South.
pittsburgh, Ala.
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for corn the next year. Fertilizers
may or may not be applied to the
corn, but I do earnestly advise heavy
applications of them to the green crops,
preparatory to the corn crop. If
properly managed, two green crops can
be grown easily the "of year" on
fields Nos. l and 2, to be turned
under for the corn crop next year.
My experience is, that not only will
fields l and 2 keep up their fertility,
but they will grow steadily larger
crops, and that in this way twenty or
twenty-five barrels of orn per acre
can be grown in a few years. Fields
8, 4, S, 6, Z and 8 are kept steadily in
clover one of these fields sown down
each fall to wheat, and sown to clover
again next spring. The clover seed
sown both ways and narrowed both
ways with a sharp tooth, heavy har-
row. The clover on all the fields
dressed with two hundred or two
hundred and fifty pounds of plaster
every spring, in damp weather, or
early morning. Field No. 9, a stand
ing meadow for hay. Field No. 10, a
standing pasture. I shall change my
pasture and hay meadow nee in a
while for some of other fields. [
manage my tobacco lots in this way.
Nos. 1 and Q are moist and we'll
drained low grounds Nos. 3 and 4
upland. Nc l in tobacco this year
No. 2 in rye, which will be turned
under and sown again in rye, to be
turned next spring in time for tobacco
next year. No. 2 will be sown in rye
as soon as the tobacco is gotten off the
land-this rye is preparatory for an
other tobacco crop. Lots Nos. 3 and 4
r managed precisely as lots Nos. 1
and 1.-TWO green crops turned under
ahead of each tobacco crop and as aprep-
aration for it. I use very little fertil-
izer on my tobacco, only enough to
start It, but I fertilize the green crops
ahead of the tobacco very heavily.
The ingredients forming my compost
costing about $40 or $45 per acre. I
SOW over the green crops about ten
bushels of Stacked lime just be-
fore the plough, to prevent the land
from becoming sour and to benefit the
land. This plan produces a very
superior shipping tobacco, stocky and
a0any, and, if nicely handled, will COM
mand top prices, I do not allow my
clover to be grazed by any stock
whatever, until late in the fall. The
clover ripens it's seed, which fall on
the ground and re-seed it every year.
I do not fence off my land into ten
fields and four tobacco lots ; it is not
necessary to do so, as my standing
pasture accommodates all my stock
in fact I have very little inside fencing
on my farm. My experience is, that
if land in the Piedmont section is
managed as l have endeavored to ex-
plain, that there will be a steady yearly
improvement, both in the land and in
the crops upon it. I am a firm be-
lever in green of some sort
my entire system is based on that one
idea. Nitrogen, avery expensive con
stituent, and a most necessary one for
all vegetation, is, in my judgment,
gotten into the land by the cheapest
source known when brought there
through green manures. The day for
small crops has passed, and our farm
ers will be compelled to study the great
principles underlying agriculture as
they have never done before.
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AS TO KEEPING BUTTER.

An English dairy woman gives the
following rules for practice in farm
diaries. Butter that has been properly
worked, sailed and packed, will 60
mouldy or rancid unless due care is
taken to exclude damp air, etc. Pre-
missing that the butter is properly
packed to within half an inch OF the
top of the crock, make it perfectly
level and smooth, and spread over 1t a
square of cotton or linen rag a little
larger than the top of the crock press
it over the butter, and on this put a
layer of fnely-grounded salt to the
thickness of a q~uarter-inch see thaI
it is quite to the edge of the crock all
round, and gently turn up the edges
of the linen and fold it over the salt:
Stand the crock in a shady corner Oh
the dairy table, and in "a few days d
natural brine will probably nave
formed, or the butter may be SO dry
that the salt will hardly melt in either
case l have found the butter keep pei.
fectly, and at present there are crooks
in our dairy put up in June, and 5ne
butter is as sweet and of as gooo d
color as if newly packed. Anothep
advantage of the system is, hat Ile
butter can be looked after by Simply
raising the edge of the cotton cover,
ing, and if showing any sign OF IGo
much damp, a dry cloth and fresh Sai'
can be put on.
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Old stains that have been set Will
soap may be bleached out on lno
grass, and there is no better tln0
than when the trees are in blossom.